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FELIX SCHNEIDER, OF PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

BEDSTEAD.

.SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent o. 685,530, dated October29, 1901.

Application filed lFebruary 25, 1901. Serial No. 48,760. (No model.) v

To @ZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FELIX SCHNEIDER, a citizen of the United States,residing in the `-city and countyof Philadelphia,State of Pennsylvania,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Bedsteads, of which thefollowing is a specification. Y Y

My invention consists of an attachment for a bedstead so constructedthat the ends of ythe covering may hang freely and gracefully inposit-ion, thus also avoiding tucking of the same and concealing thehead or foot rail or both rails, if so desired, a vertical member ofsaid attachment being adapted to support cross and side rails in thesame plane or approximately the same plane, so as to provide means forsustaining a bed-bottom thereon.

Figure l represents a sideelevation of a bedstead embodying myinvention. Fig. 2 represents a perspective View of detached portions onau enlarged scale. Fig. 3 represents a section of a portion on line a:or, Fig. 2.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in thefigures.

Referring to the drawings, A designates the head and foot posts of abedstead, B the side rails, and C the cross or end rails thereof.

On the posts are the elbows D, whose horizontal limbs E are securedthereto by the collars E or other means and whoseA vertical limbs F areseparated from the posts forming the Vertical passages or recesses. Gbetween said posts and the limbs F.

The cross-rails C are secured to the upper ends of the limbs F and areaccordingly set back from the posts A, forming recesses as continuationsof the recesses G, which continuations exist between the cross-rails andhead and foot portions or boards of the bedstead.

On the ends of the side rails arethe tongues H, which by means of theface-plates J are secured to said rails, said tongues being somewhatT-shaped in horizontal section and having the inner faces of their headsK inclined, as at L. l As both the cross and side rails are connectedwith the vertical limbs F and the tops of said rails are in the sameplane, they provide means for supporting a' bed-bottom thereon.

' On the `Vertical limbs F of the elbows D are slotted plates M, theinner side walls N of which are inclined, the slots P of said plates vbeing enlarged, so that the heads K may pass through the same, whilethe. narrow parts of said slots permit the necks Q of the tongues H topass down the same, so that said heads will bear against the backs ofthe plates, thus causing the engagement or locking of the side railswith said elbows, and consequently with the cross-rails. Simultaneouslytherewith the inclined portions of the heads are engaged with theinclined walls N and wedged thereagainst, by which provision tightjoints are produced and rattling of the parts is prevented.

The plates M and elbows D may be formed integral as castings, or theplates may be secured to said elbows, as shown.

It will be seen that the side and end rails may be connected and thesprings and mat tress applied as usual.

In making up the bed the ends of the sheets or other bedclothes arepassed over the crosse rails and dropped into the recesses Gf, wherethey hang gracefully and cover and conceal the cross-rails, whiletucking in of the bedclothes between the cross-rails and mattress andconsequent puckerin g or humping of the same are avoided.

When the side rails are raisedg the tongues H follow the motionsthereof, when the heads of said tongues then occupy the enlargedportions of the slotsP, it being evident that by proper motions of therails said tongues may be withdrawn from said slots, causing thedisconnection of the side and end rails.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire tosecure by Letters Patent, ism

l. In a bedstead, an elbow adapted to be connected with the post thereofand having a vertical limb set out therefrom, and a cross= rail and aside rail both having a common support in said vertical limb of saidelbow and being in the same plane to support a bedbottom thereon.

2. In a bedstead, an elbow adapted to be connected with a post thereofand having a vertical limb set out therefrom, a cross-rail supported onsaid vertical limb and a side rail adapted to be removably connectedwith said limb, the tops of said cross and side rails being in the sameplane.

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3. In a bedstead, a collar adapted to be connected with a postrthereof,an elbow projecting from said collar, and provided With a vertical limband set ont; from said post, and cross and side rails adapted to besnpported on said limb and both adapted to support a bed-bottom thereon.

4. In avabedstead, a post, an elbow having` its horizontal memberadapted to be rmly connected with said post, and its vertical member setout from said post and adapted to support a 'cross-rail and providedwith means for removably connecting a side rail therewith, said crossand'side rails being in the same plane and forming the support for abedbottom.

5. In a bedstead, an elbow having horizontal and vertical limbs, thehorizontal limb being adapted to be attached to a post, of the bedsteadand lche vertical limb to set out from said post and being adapted tosupport the side and cross rails of the bedstead in the same plane.

FELIX SCHNEIDER.

Vtnesses:

JOHN A. WIEDERSHEIM, ELLA LANE.

